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| CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "K" | |||||
| Last updated 09/09/2012 | |||||
| Date | Name | Born | Died | Age | |
| Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that | |||||
| date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections, | |||||
| or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a | |||||
| previous election result. | |||||
| Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on | |||||
| that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was | |||||
| buried on that date | |||||
| KILKENNY COUNTY | |||||
| 1801 | William Brabazon Ponsonby,later [1806] 1st | ||||
| Baron Ponsonby | 15 Sep 1744 | 5 Nov 1806 | 62 | ||
| James Wandesford Butler,later [1820] 12th | |||||
| Earl of Ormonde and [1825] 1st Marquess | |||||
| of Ormonde (to 1820) | 15 Jul 1774 | 18 May 1838 | 63 | ||
| 12 Apr 1806 | George Ponsonby | c 1773 | 5 Jun 1863 | ||
| 21 Nov 1806 | Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (to 1826) | 6 Jul 1783 | 11 Jan 1837 | 53 | |
| 11 Sep 1820 | Charles Harward Butler (Charles Harward | ||||
| Butler Clarke from 1820 and Charles Harward | |||||
| Butler Clarke Southwell Wandesford from 1830) | 9 Nov 1780 | 7 Nov 1860 | 79 | ||
| (to 1830) | |||||
| 22 Jun 1826 | John William Ponsonby,styled Viscount | ||||
| Duncannon,later [1844] 4th Earl of Bessborough | |||||
| (to 1832) | 31 Aug 1781 | 16 May 1847 | 65 | ||
| 12 Aug 1830 | John Butler,styled Earl of Ossory,later [1838] | ||||
| 2nd Marquess of Ormonde | 24 Aug 1808 | 25 Sep 1854 | 46 | ||
| 20 Dec 1832 | Pierce Butler (to 1846) | 1774 | 18 Aug 1864 | 90 | |
| William Francis Finn | |||||
| 12 Aug 1837 | George Bryan | c Nov 1843 | |||
| 1 Dec 1843 | Pierce Somerset Butler (to 1852) | 1801 | 28 Jul 1865 | 64 | |
| 29 Jul 1846 | Richard Smithwicke | 1804 | |||
| 18 Aug 1847 | John Green (to 1865) | 16 Jun 1883 | |||
| 26 Jul 1852 | William Shee [kt 1864] | 24 Jun 1804 | 19 Feb 1868 | 63 | |
| 13 Apr 1857 | Leopold George Frederick Agar-Ellis, | ||||
| later [1895] 5th Viscount Clifden (to 1874) | 13 May 1829 | 10 Sep 1899 | 70 | ||
| 24 Jul 1865 | George Leopold Bryan (to 1880) | 1828 | 29 Jun 1880 | 51 | |
| 10 Feb 1874 | Patrick Martin (to 1885) | 1830 | 29 Oct 1895 | 65 | |
| 15 Apr 1880 | Edward Purcell Mulhallen Marum | 1827 | 21 Sep 1890 | 63 | |
| COUNTY SPLIT INTO NORTH | |||||
| & SOUTH DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| KILKENNY COUNTY NORTH | |||||
| 4 Dec 1885 | Edward Purcell Mulhallen Marum | 1827 | 21 Sep 1890 | 63 | |
| 22 Dec 1890 | Sir John Pope Hennessy | 5 Apr 1834 | 7 Oct 1891 | 57 | |
| 29 Oct 1891 | Patrick McDermott | 1859 | Sep 1942 | 83 | |
| 26 Feb 1902 | Joseph Devlin [at the general election in | 13 Feb 1871 | 18 Jan 1934 | 62 | |
| Jan 1906, he was also returned for Belfast | |||||
| West, for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 3 Mar 1906 | Michael Meagher | 27 Feb 1846 | Dec 1927 | 81 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | William Thomas Cosgrave | 6 Jun 1880 | 16 Nov 1965 | 85 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
| KILKENNY COUNTY SOUTH | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | Patrick Alexander Chance | 1857 | after 1919 | ||
| 7 Sep 1894 | Samuel Morris | 1846 | Aug 1920 | 74 | |
| 6 Oct 1900 | James O'Mara | 6 Aug 1873 | 21 Nov 1948 | 75 | |
| 28 Jul 1907 | Nicholas Joseph Murphy | 1880 | 27 Apr 1913 | 32 | |
| 10 Aug 1909 | Matthew Keating | 23 May 1869 | 25 May 1937 | 68 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | James O'Mara | 6 Aug 1873 | 21 Nov 1948 | 75 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
| KILMARNOCK | |||||
| 24 Dec 1832 | John Dunlop | 1806 | c Apr 1839 | 32 | |
| 17 Jan 1835 | John Bowring | 17 Oct 1792 | 23 Nov 1872 | 80 | |
| 29 Jul 1837 | John Campbell Colquhoun | 23 Jan 1803 | 17 Apr 1870 | 67 | |
| 7 Jul 1841 | Alexander Johnston | 1790 | 9 May 1844 | 53 | |
| 29 May 1844 | Edward Pleydell Bouverie | 26 Apr 1818 | 16 Dec 1889 | 71 | |
| 6 Feb 1874 | James Fortescue Harrison | 1819 | after 1893 | ||
| 9 Apr 1880 | John Dick Peddie | 1824 | 12 Mar 1891 | 66 | |
| 1 Dec 1885 | Peter Sturrock | 1820 | 7 Mar 1904 | 83 | |
| 7 Jul 1886 | Stephen Williamson | 28 Jun 1827 | 16 Jun 1903 | 75 | |
| 23 Jul 1895 | John McAusland Denny | 29 Nov 1858 | 9 Dec 1922 | 64 | |
| 23 Jan 1906 | Adam Rolland Rainy | 3 Apr 1862 | 26 Aug 1911 | 49 | |
| 26 Sep 1911 | William Glynne Charles Gladstone | 14 Jul 1885 | 15 Apr 1915 | 29 | |
| 28 May 1915 | Alexander Shaw,later [1937] 2nd Baron | ||||
| Craigmyle | 28 Feb 1883 | 29 Sep 1944 | 61 | ||
| 6 Dec 1923 | Robert Climie | 4 Jan 1868 | 3 Oct 1929 | 61 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Charles Glen MacAndrew [kt 1935],later [1959] | ||||
| 1st Baron MacAndrew | 13 Jan 1888 | 11 Jan 1979 | 90 | ||
| 30 May 1929 | Robert Climie | 4 Jan 1868 | 3 Oct 1929 | 61 | |
| 27 Nov 1929 | Craigie Mason Aitchison | 26 Jan 1882 | 2 May 1941 | 59 | |
| 2 Nov 1933 | Kenneth Martin Lindsay | 16 Sep 1897 | 4 Mar 1991 | 93 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Clarice Marion McNab Shaw | 22 Oct 1883 | 27 Oct 1946 | 63 | |
| 5 Dec 1946 | William Ross,later [1979] Baron Ross | ||||
| of Marnock [L] | 7 Apr 1911 | 10 Jun 1988 | 77 | ||
| 3 May 1979 | William McKelvey | 8 Jun 1934 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "KILMARNOCK | |||||
| & LOUDOUN" 1983 | |||||
| KILMARNOCK & LOUDOUN | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | William McKelvey | 8 Jun 1934 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Desmond Henry Browne,later [2010] Baron | ||||
| Browne of Ladyton [L] | 22 Mar 1952 | ||||
| 6 May 2010 | Catherine Mary Jamieson | 3 Nov 1956 | |||
| KINCARDINESHIRE | |||||
| 4 Jun 1708 | Sir David Ramsay,4th baronet | after 1673 | 1 Sep 1710 | ||
| 25 Oct 1710 | Sir Alexander Ramsay,5th baronet | c 1679 | 27 Jan 1754 | ||
| 2 Oct 1713 | James Scott | c 1672 | 1747 | ||
| 28 May 1734 | John Falconer | 21 Oct 1674 | 21 Nov 1764 | 90 | |
| 2 Jun 1741 | Sir James Carnegie,3rd baronet | 1715 | 30 Apr 1765 | 49 | |
| 7 Jun 1765 | Sir Alexander Ramsay-Irvine,6th baronet | 1717 | 11 Feb 1806 | 88 | |
| 9 Apr 1768 | Robert Rickart Hepburn | 1720 | 24 May 1804 | 83 | |
| 27 Oct 1774 | Lord Adam Gordon | c 1726 | 13 Aug 1801 | ||
| 19 Jun 1788 | Robert Barclay-Allardice | 1732 | 8 Apr 1797 | 64 | |
| 8 Jun 1797 | John Wishart-Belsches (Stuart from | ||||
| Oct 1797),later [1807] 4th baronet | c 1752 | 4 Dec 1821 | |||
| 29 Nov 1806 | William Adam | 2 Aug 1751 | 17 Feb 1839 | 87 | |
| 26 Feb 1812 | George Harley Drummond | 23 Nov 1783 | 21 Mar 1855 | 71 | |
| 3 Apr 1820 | Sir Alexander Ramsay,2nd baronet | 14 Feb 1785 | 26 Apr 1852 | 67 | |
| 30 Jun 1826 | Hugh Arbuthnott [kt 1862] | 1780 | 11 Jul 1868 | 88 | |
| 17 Jul 1865 | James Dyce Nicol | 1805 | 16 Nov 1872 | 67 | |
| 10 Dec 1872 | Sir George Balfour | 1809 | 12 Mar 1894 | 84 | |
| Jul 1892 | John William Crombie | 4 Mar 1858 | 22 Mar 1908 | 50 | |
| 25 Apr 1908 | Arthur Cecil Murray,later [1951] 3rd Viscount | ||||
| Elibank | 27 Mar 1879 | 5 Dec 1962 | 83 | ||
| NAME ALTERED TO "KINCARDINE | |||||
| & WESTERN" 1918 | |||||
| KINCARDINE & DEESIDE | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith | 8 Apr 1932 | 29 Aug 1991 | 59 | |
| 7 Nov 1991 | Nicol Ross Stephen,later [2011] Baron | ||||
| Stephen [L] | 23 Mar 1960 | ||||
| 9 Apr 1992 | George Alexander Bryson Kynoch | 7 Oct 1946 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| KINCARDINE & WESTERN | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Arthur Cecil Murray,later [1951] 3rd Viscount | ||||
| Elibank | 27 Mar 1879 | 5 Dec 1962 | 83 | ||
| 6 Dec 1923 | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey [kt 1936] | 2 Mar 1890 | 17 Nov 1969 | 79 | |
| 30 May 1929 | James Scott | 8 Mar 1876 | 30 Oct 1939 | 63 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey [kt 1936] | 2 Mar 1890 | 17 Nov 1969 | 79 | |
| 30 Mar 1939 | Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley [kt 1958] | 2 Sep 1903 | 17 Jul 1977 | 73 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| KING'S COUNTY | |||||
| 1801 | Sir Lawrence Parsons,5th baronet,later | ||||
| [1807] 2nd Earl of Rosse (to 1807) | 21 May 1758 | 24 Feb 1841 | 82 | ||
| Denis Bowes Daly | 1745 | 17 Dec 1821 | 76 | ||
| 22 Jul 1802 | Thomas Bernard (to 1832) | c 1769 | 18 May 1834 | ||
| 22 May 1807 | Hardress Lloyd | c 1781 | 1860 | ||
| 30 Jun 1818 | John Clere Parsons | 29 Jan 1760 | 1 May 1826 | 66 | |
| 30 Jul 1821 | William Parsons,styled Baron Oxmantown, | ||||
| later [1841] 3rd Earl of Rosse (to 1835) | 17 Jun 1800 | 31 Oct 1867 | 67 | ||
| 1 Jan 1833 | Nicholas Fitzsimon [kt 1841] (to 1841) | 31 Jul 1849 | |||
| 16 Jan 1835 | John Craven Westenra (to 1852) | 31 Mar 1798 | 5 Dec 1874 | 76 | |
| 24 Feb 1841 | Sir Andrew Armstrong,1st baronet | 19 Oct 1786 | 27 Jan 1863 | 76 | |
| 26 Jul 1852 | Patrick O'Brien,later [1862] 2nd baronet (to 1885) | 1823 | 23 Apr 1895 | 71 | |
| Loftus Henry Bland | 1805 | 21 Jan 1862 | 56 | ||
| 19 May 1859 | John Pope Hennessy [kt 1880] | 5 Apr 1834 | 7 Oct 1891 | 57 | |
| 24 Jul 1865 | John Gilbert King | 1822 | 9 Jan 1901 | 78 | |
| 23 Nov 1868 | David Sherlock | 1814 | 16 Apr 1884 | 69 | |
| 13 Apr 1880 | Bernard Charles Molloy | 1842 | 26 Jun 1916 | 73 | |
| COUNTY SPLIT INTO 2 DIVISIONS 1885, | |||||
| SEE "BIRR" AND "TULLAMORE" | |||||
| CONSTITUENCY RE-UNITED 1918 | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Patrick McCartan | 13 Mar 1878 | 28 Mar 1963 | 84 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
| KING'S LYNN (NORFOLK) | |||||
| formerly known as BISHOP'S LYNN | |||||
| Apr 1660 | Sir Ralph Hare,1st baronet | 24 Mar 1623 | 28 Feb 1672 | 48 | |
| Edward Walpole (to 1668) | 9 Nov 1621 | 18 Mar 1668 | 46 | ||
| 29 Mar 1661 | Sir William Hovell (to 1670) | c 1637 | 4 Mar 1670 | ||
| 10 Apr 1668 | Robert Wright (to 1679) | c 1634 | 18 May 1689 | ||
| 10 Mar 1670 | John Coke | 8 Sep 1635 | 1 Aug 1671 | 35 | |
| 27 Jan 1673 | Sir Francis North,later [1683] 1st Baron Guilford | 22 Oct 1637 | 5 Sep 1685 | 47 | |
| Election declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the | |||||
| subsequent by-election held on 14 Feb 1673, | |||||
| North was again returned | |||||
| 21 Apr 1675 | Robert Coke | c 1651 | 19 Jan 1679 | ||
| 5 Feb 1679 | John Turner [kt 1684] | c 1631 | 14 Feb 1712 | ||
| Sir Simon Taylor (to 1689) | c 1633 | 25 Dec 1689 | |||
| 2 Feb 1681 | Sir Henry Hobart,4th baronet | c 1658 | 21 Aug 1698 | ||
| 16 Mar 1685 | Sir John Turner (to 1702) | c 1631 | 14 Feb 1712 | ||
| 11 Jan 1689 | Sigismund Trafford | c 1643 | 11 Jul 1723 | ||
| 6 Mar 1690 | Daniel Bedingfeld | c 1636 | 13 Sep 1704 | ||
| 24 Oct 1695 | Sir Charles Turner,later [1727] 1st baronet | 11 Jun 1666 | 24 Nov 1738 | 72 | |
| (to 1739) | |||||
| 23 Jul 1702 | Sir Robert Walpole,later [1742] 1st Earl of | ||||
| Orford [expelled 12 Jan 1712. At the | 26 Aug 1676 | 18 Mar 1745 | 68 | ||
| subsequent by-election held on 11 Feb 1712, | |||||
| Walpole was again returned, but he was | |||||
| declared incapable of being re-elected] | |||||
| 7 Apr 1712 | John Turner,later [1738] 2nd baronet | 30 Dec 1668 | 6 Jan 1739 | 70 | |
| 31 Aug 1713 | Sir Robert Walpole,later [1742] 1st Earl of | ||||
| Orford (to 1742) | 26 Aug 1676 | 18 Mar 1745 | 68 | ||
| 9 Feb 1739 | Sir John Turner,3rd baronet (to 1774) | 19 Jun 1712 | 25 Jun 1780 | 68 | |
| 25 Feb 1742 | Edward Bacon | c 1712 | 12 Mar 1786 | ||
| 29 Jun 1747 | Horatio Walpole,later [1806] 1st Earl of Orford | 12 Jun 1723 | 24 Feb 1809 | 85 | |
| 24 Feb 1757 | Horatio Walpole,later [1791] 4th Earl of Orford | 24 Sep 1717 | 2 Mar 1797 | 79 | |
| 21 Mar 1768 | Thomas Walpole (to 1784) | 25 Oct 1727 | 21 Mar 1803 | 75 | |
| 8 Oct 1774 | Crisp Molineux (to 1790) | 7 Sep 1730 | 4 Dec 1792 | 62 | |
| 2 Apr 1784 | Horatio Walpole,styled Baron Walpole from | ||||
| 1806,later [1809] 2nd Earl of Orford (to 1809) | 13 Jun 1752 | 15 Jun 1822 | 70 | ||
| 18 Jun 1790 | Sir Martin Browne Folkes,1st baronet | 21 May 1749 | 11 Dec 1821 | 72 | |
| (to 1821) | |||||
| 9 Mar 1809 | Horatio Walpole,styled Baron Walpole,later | ||||
| [1822] 3rd Earl of Orford (to 1822) | 14 Jun 1783 | 29 Dec 1858 | 75 | ||
| 9 Jan 1822 | William Henry Cavendish Cavendish- | ||||
| Scott-Bentinck,styled Marquess of Titchfield | |||||
| (to 1824) | 21 Aug 1796 | 5 Mar 1824 | 27 | ||
| 29 Jun 1822 | John Walpole (to 1831) | 17 Nov 1787 | 10 Dec 1859 | 72 | |
| 19 Mar 1824 | William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, | ||||
| styled Marquess of Titchfield,later [1854] | |||||
| 5th Duke of Portland | 18 Sep 1800 | 6 Dec 1879 | 79 | ||
| For further information of this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of the page which contains | |||||
| details of the Portland peerage | |||||
| 10 Jun 1826 | Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck | 14 Sep 1774 | 17 Jun 1839 | 64 | |
| 4 Feb 1828 | Lord William George Frederick | ||||
| Cavendish-Bentinck (to 1848) | 27 Feb 1802 | 21 Sep 1848 | 46 | ||
| 2 May 1831 | Lord William Pitt Lennox | 20 Sep 1799 | 18 Feb 1881 | 81 | |
| 8 Jan 1835 | Sir Stratford Canning,later [1852] 1st Viscount | ||||
| Stratford de Redcliffe | 4 Nov 1786 | 14 Aug 1880 | 93 | ||
| 10 Feb 1842 | Robert Jocelyn,styled Viscount Jocelyn | ||||
| (to 1854) | 20 Feb 1816 | 12 Aug 1854 | 38 | ||
| 22 Dec 1848 | Edward Henry Stanley,styled Baron Stanley, | ||||
| later [1869] 15th Earl of Derby (to 1869) | 21 Jul 1826 | 21 Apr 1893 | 66 | ||
| 16 Sep 1854 | John Henry Gurney | 4 Jul 1819 | 20 Apr 1890 | 70 | |
| 14 Jul 1865 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton,3rd baronet | 26 Jan 1837 | 28 Oct 1915 | 78 | |
| 19 Nov 1868 | Robert Bourke,later [1887] 1st Baron Connemara | ||||
| (to 1886) | 11 Jun 1827 | 3 Sep 1902 | 75 | ||
| 9 Dec 1869 | Lord Claud John Hamilton | 20 Feb 1843 | 26 Jan 1925 | 81 | |
| 3 Apr 1880 | Sir William Hovell Browne Ffolkes,3rd baronet | 21 Nov 1847 | 9 May 1912 | 64 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
| 25 Aug 1886 | Alexander Weston Jarvis | 26 Dec 1855 | 31 Oct 1939 | 83 | |
| Jul 1892 | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 15 Jan 1841 | 12 Jan 1922 | 80 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 15 Jan 1906 | Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs | 15 Mar 1871 | 22 Aug 1955 | 84 | |
| 15 Jan 1910 | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 15 Jan 1841 | 12 Jan 1922 | 80 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| Dec 1910 | Holcombe Ingleby | 18 Mar 1854 | 6 Aug 1926 | 72 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Neville Paul Jodrell [kt 1922] | 27 May 1858 | 20 May 1932 | 73 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | George Graham Woodwark | 1 Jul 1874 | 26 Dec 1938 | 64 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Edmund Maurice Roche,4th Baron Fermoy [I] | 15 May 1885 | 8 Jul 1955 | 70 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | Somerset Arthur Maxwell | 20 Jan 1905 | 30 Dec 1942 | 37 | |
| 12 Feb 1943 | Edmund Maurice Roche,4th Baron Fermoy [I] | 15 May 1885 | 8 Jul 1955 | 70 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Frederick John Wise,later [1951] 1st Baron Wise | 10 Apr 1887 | 20 Nov 1968 | 81 | |
| 25 Oct 1951 | Ronald Scott-Miller | 1 Nov 1904 | 10 Mar 1992 | 87 | |
| 8 Oct 1959 | Denys Gradwell Bullard | 15 Aug 1912 | 2 Nov 1994 | 82 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | John Derek Page,later [1978] Baron Whaddon [L] | 14 Aug 1927 | 16 Aug 2005 | 78 | |
| 18 Jun 1970 | Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler | 13 Jan 1934 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974 | |||||
| KING'S NORTON (BIRMINGHAM) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Sir Herbert Austin,later [1936] 1st Baron Austin | 8 Nov 1866 | 23 May 1941 | 74 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Robert Dennison | 14 Dec 1879 | 10 Nov 1951 | 71 | |
| 30 May 1929 | Lionel Beaumont Thomas | 1 Aug 1893 | 7 Dec 1942 | 49 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | John Ronald Hamilton Cartland | 3 Jan 1907 | May 1940 | 33 | |
| 8 May 1941 | Basil Arthur John Peto | 13 Dec 1900 | 3 Feb 1954 | 53 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Albert Raymond Blackburn | 11 Mar 1915 | 3 Nov 1991 | 76 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Geoffrey William Lloyd,later [1974] Baron | ||||
| Geoffrey-Lloyd [L] | 17 Jan 1902 | 12 Sep 1984 | 82 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955 | |||||
| KINGSTON-UPON-HULL - See HULL | |||||
| KINGSTON UPON THAMES (SURREY) | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | Sir John Whittaker Ellis,1st baronet | 25 Jan 1829 | 20 Sep 1912 | 83 | |
| Jul 1892 | Sir Richard Temple,1st baronet | 8 Mar 1826 | 15 Mar 1902 | 76 | |
| 23 Jul 1895 | Thomas Skewes-Cox [kt 1905] | 1849 | 15 Nov 1912 | 63 | |
| 22 Jan 1906 | Sir George Cave,later [1918] 1st Viscount Cave | 23 Feb 1856 | 29 Mar 1928 | 72 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | John Gordon Drummond Campbell | 15 Feb 1864 | 11 Jan 1935 | 70 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Frederick George Penny [kt 1929],later [1933] 1st | ||||
| baronet,[1937] 1st Baron Marchwood and | |||||
| [1945] 1st Viscount Marchwood | 10 Mar 1876 | 1 Jan 1955 | 78 | ||
| 1 Jul 1937 | Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds [kt 1938] | 5 Apr 1874 | 25 Mar 1955 | 80 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter,later [1972] | ||||
| Baron Boyd-Carpenter [L] | 2 Jun 1908 | 11 Jul 1998 | 90 | ||
| 4 May 1972 | Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont,later [1998] | ||||
| Baron Lamont of Lerwick [L] | 8 May 1942 | ||||
| NAME CHANGED TO "KINGSTON AND | |||||
| SURBITON" 1997 | |||||
| KINGSTON AND SURBITON | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Edward Jonathan Davey | 25 Dec 1965 | |||
| KINGSWINSFORD (STAFFORDSHIRE) | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | Alexander Staveley Hill | 21 May 1825 | 28 Jun 1905 | 80 | |
| 1 Oct 1900 | William George Webb | c Dec 1842 | 14 Jun 1905 | 62 | |
| 4 Jul 1905 | Henry Staveley-Hill | 22 May 1865 | 25 Mar 1946 | 80 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Charles Henry Sitch | 4 May 1887 | 13 Jun 1960 | 73 | |
| For further information on this MP,see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 27 Oct 1931 | Alan Livesey Stuart Todd | 3 Jun 1900 | 14 Aug 1976 | 76 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | Arthur Henderson,later [1966] Baron Rowley [L] | 27 Aug 1893 | 28 Aug 1968 | 75 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| KINGSWOOD (AVON) | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Terence William Walker | 26 Oct 1935 | |||
| 3 May 1979 | Jack Heywood Aspinwall | 5 Feb 1933 | |||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Robert Antony Hayward | 11 Mar 1949 | |||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Roger Leslie Berry | 4 Jul 1948 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Christopher James Skidmore | 17 May 1981 | |||
| KINROSS & WESTERN (PERTH & KINROSS) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | James Gardiner | 1860 | 31 Dec 1924 | 64 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | Katherine Marjory Stewart Murray, | ||||
| Duchess of Atholl | 6 Nov 1874 | 21 Oct 1960 | 85 | ||
| 21 Dec 1938 | William McNair Snadden,later [1955] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 15 Jan 1896 | 23 Nov 1959 | 63 | ||
| 26 May 1955 | William Gilmour Leburn | 30 Jul 1913 | 15 Aug 1963 | 50 | |
| 7 Nov 1963 | Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, | ||||
| later [1974] Baron Home of the Hirsel [L] | 2 Jul 1903 | 9 Oct 1995 | 92 | ||
| 10 Oct 1974 | Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn [kt 1988] | 24 Dec 1933 | 19 Feb 1995 | 61 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| KINSALE (CORK) | |||||
| 1801 | William Rowley | c 1764 | 25 Feb 1812 | ||
| 13 Jul 1802 | Samuel Campbell Rowley | 19 Jan 1774 | 28 Jan 1846 | 72 | |
| 29 Apr 1806 | Henry Martin | 21 Dec 1763 | 19 Jul 1839 | 75 | |
| 27 Jun 1818 | George Coussmaker | c 1797 | 23 May 1821 | ||
| 3 Jul 1821 | Sir Josias Rowley,1st baronet | c 1765 | 10 Jan 1842 | ||
| 15 Jun 1826 | John Russell | 10 Jul 1796 | 27 Apr 1835 | 38 | |
| 18 Dec 1832 | Samuel Stawell | ||||
| 15 Jan 1835 | Henry Thomas | ||||
| 7 Aug 1837 | Pierce Mahony [he was unseated on petition | 19 Dec 1792 | 18 Feb 1853 | 60 | |
| in favour of Henry Thomas 11 Apr 1838] | |||||
| 11 Apr 1838 | Henry Thomas | ||||
| 9 Jul 1841 | William Henry Watson | 1796 | |||
| 6 Aug 1847 | Richard Samuel Guinness [his election was | 1797 | 28 Aug 1857 | 60 | |
| declared void 27 Feb 1848] | |||||
| 11 Mar 1848 | Benjamin Hawes [kt 1856] | 1797 | 15 May 1862 | 64 | |
| 12 Feb 1852 | John Isaac Heard | 1788 | 1 Sep 1862 | 74 | |
| 7 May 1859 | Sir John Arnott,later [1896] 1st baronet | 26 Jul 1814 | 28 Mar 1898 | 83 | |
| 8 Jun 1863 | Sir George Conway Colthurst,5th baronet | 1824 | 24 Sep 1878 | 54 | |
| 9 Feb 1874 | Eugene Collins | 1822 | 10 Mar 1895 | 72 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
| KIRKCALDY | |||||
| 18 Dec 1832 | Robert Ferguson | Aug 1769 | 3 Dec 1840 | 71 | |
| 14 Jan 1835 | John Fergus | 23 Jan 1865 | |||
| 26 Jul 1837 | Robert Ferguson | Aug 1769 | 3 Dec 1840 | 71 | |
| 27 Jan 1841 | Robert Ferguson | 20 Aug 1802 | 28 Nov 1868 | 66 | |
| 25 Jul 1862 | Roger Sinclair Aytoun | 18 Feb 1823 | 1 Jan 1904 | 80 | |
| 11 Feb 1874 | Robert Reid | 1831 | 30 Mar 1875 | 43 | |
| 23 Apr 1875 | Sir George Campbell | 1824 | 18 Feb 1892 | 67 | |
| 11 Mar 1892 | James Henry Dalziel,later [1918] 1st baronet | ||||
| and [1921] 1st Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy | 24 Apr 1868 | 15 Jul 1935 | 67 | ||
| 4 Mar 1921 | Thomas Kennedy | 25 Dec 1876 | 3 Mar 1954 | 77 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Sir Robert Hutchison,later [1932] 1st Baron | ||||
| Hutchison of Montrose | 5 Sep 1873 | 13 Jun 1950 | 76 | ||
| 6 Dec 1923 | Thomas Kennedy | 25 Dec 1876 | 3 Mar 1954 | 77 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Albert Russell | 1884 | 12 May 1975 | 90 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | Thomas Kennedy | 25 Dec 1876 | 3 Mar 1954 | 77 | |
| 17 Feb 1944 | Thomas Frederick Hubbard | Oct 1898 | 7 Jan 1961 | 62 | |
| 8 Oct 1959 | Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay | 10 Jul 1916 | 20 Apr 1987 | 70 | |
| 11 Jun 1987 | Lewis George Moonie,later [2005] | ||||
| Baron Moonie [L] | 25 Feb 1947 | ||||
| NAME ALTERED TO "KIRKCALDY & | |||||
| COWDENBEATH" 2005 | |||||
| KIRKCALDY & COWDENBEATH | |||||
| 5 May 2005 | James Gordon Brown | 20 Feb 1951 | |||
| KIRKCUDBRIGHT | |||||
| 25 Jun 1708 | John Stewart | 9 Aug 1726 | |||
| 17 Feb 1715 | Alexander Murray | c 1680 | 1 May 1750 | ||
| 14 Sep 1727 | Patrick Heron | c 1672 | 22 Oct 1761 | ||
| 22 May 1741 | Basil Hamilton | 8 Sep 1696 | 14 Nov 1742 | 46 | |
| 31 Dec 1742 | John Maxwell | c 1700 | Feb 1754 | ||
| 30 Jul 1747 | John Mackye (John Ross Mackye from 1755) | 23 Apr 1707 | Oct 1797 | 90 | |
| 19 Apr 1768 | James Murray | 1727 | 30 Apr 1799 | 71 | |
| 2 Nov 1774 | William Stewart | 1737 | 8 Oct 1797 | 60 | |
| 9 Oct 1780 | Peter Johnston | 5 Aug 1749 | 3 Oct 1837 | 88 | |
| Election declared void 5 Mar 1781 | |||||
| 6 Apr 1781 | John Gordon [he was unseated on petition | 1750 | 21 Sep 1840 | 90 | |
| in favour of Peter Johnston 6 Feb 1782] | |||||
| 6 Feb 1782 | Peter Johnston | 5 Aug 1749 | 3 Oct 1837 | 88 | |
| 16 Aug 1786 | Alexander Stewart | c 1739 | 16 Dec 1794 | ||
| 23 Mar 1795 | Patrick Heron [following the general election | c 1735 | 9 Jun 1803 | ||
| in Jul 1802,he was unseated on petition in | |||||
| favour of Montgomery Granville John Stewart | |||||
| 10 May 1803] | |||||
| 10 May 1803 | Montgomery Granville John Stewart | 15 Apr 1780 | 10 Jan 1860 | 79 | |
| 2 Nov 1812 | James Dunlop | 19 Jun 1759 | 30 Mar 1832 | 72 | |
| 21 Jun 1826 | Robert Cutlar Fergusson | c 1770 | 16 Nov 1838 | ||
| 31 Dec 1838 | Alexander Murray | 1789 | 15 Jul 1845 | 56 | |
| 20 Aug 1845 | Thomas Maitland | 1792 | 10 Jun 1851 | 58 | |
| 20 Feb 1850 | John Mackie | 3 Jul 1858 | |||
| 3 Apr 1857 | James Mackie | 18 May 1821 | 28 Dec 1867 | 46 | |
| 30 Jan 1868 | Wellwood Herries Maxwell | 1817 | 13 Aug 1900 | 83 | |
| 10 Feb 1874 | John Maitland | 1841 | Feb 1922 | 80 | |
| 9 Apr 1880 | John Maxwell Heron-Maxwell | 5 Sep 1836 | 26 Jan 1899 | 62 | |
| 1 Dec 1885 | Mark John McTaggart-Stewart,later [1892] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 12 Oct 1834 | 26 Sep 1923 | 88 | ||
| 18 Jan 1906 | Gilbert McMicking | 24 Mar 1862 | 15 Nov 1942 | 80 | |
| 19 Jan 1910 | Sir Mark John McTaggart-Stewart,1st | ||||
| baronet | 12 Oct 1834 | 26 Sep 1923 | 88 | ||
| Dec 1910 | Gilbert McMicking | 24 Mar 1862 | 15 Nov 1942 | 80 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| KIRKDALE (LIVERPOOL) | |||||
| 25 Nov 1885 | George Smyth Baden-Powell [kt 1888] | 24 Dec 1847 | 20 Nov 1898 | 50 | |
| 9 Dec 1898 | David MacIver | 24 Aug 1840 | 1 Sep 1907 | 67 | |
| 26 Sep 1907 | Charles McArthur | May 1844 | 3 Jul 1910 | 66 | |
| 20 Jul 1910 | Gerald Kyffin-Taylor | 9 Mar 1863 | 11 Dec 1949 | 86 | |
| 15 Feb 1915 | John de Fonblanque Pennefather,later [1924] | ||||
| 1st baronet | 29 Mar 1856 | 8 Aug 1933 | 77 | ||
| 30 May 1929 | Elijah Sandham | 1875 | 7 May 1944 | 68 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Robert Rankin,later [1937] 1st baronet | 18 Oct 1877 | 11 Oct 1960 | 82 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | William Keenan | 1889 | 15 Dec 1955 | 66 | |
| 26 May 1955 | Norman Alfred Pannell | 17 Apr 1901 | 8 Mar 1976 | 74 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | James Anthony Dunn | 30 Jan 1926 | Apr 1985 | 59 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| KNARESBOROUGH (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 2 Apr 1660 | William Stockdale (to 1693) | 3 Jan 1635 | 3 Mar 1693 | 58 | |
| Henry Bethell | c 1606 | 27 Feb 1668 | |||
| 11 Apr 1661 | Sir John Talbot | 7 Jun 1630 | 13 Mar 1714 | 83 | |
| 17 Feb 1679 | Sir Thomas Slingsby,2nd baronet | 15 Jun 1636 | 1 Mar 1688 | 51 | |
| 21 Mar 1685 | Henry Slingsby,later [1688] 3rd baronet | c 1660 | 15 Sep 1691 | ||
| 12 Jan 1689 | Thomas Fawkes (to 1695) | c 1640 | 7 Aug 1707 | ||
| Edward Osborne,styled Viscount Latimer | c 1655 | Jan 1689 | |||
| Double return. Fawkes declared elected | |||||
| 21 Mar 1689 [Latimer having died in the | |||||
| meantime] | |||||
| 24 Feb 1690 | William Stockdale | 3 Jan 1635 | 3 Mar 1693 | 58 | |
| Thomas Fawkes | c 1640 | 7 Aug 1707 | |||
| Sir Henry Slingsby,3rd baronet | c 1660 | 15 Sep 1691 | |||
| Double return between Fawkes and Slingsby. | |||||
| Fawkes declared elected 17 May 1690 | |||||
| 21 Apr 1693 | Christopher Stockdale (to Mar 1714) | c 1665 | Oct 1713 | ||
| 31 Oct 1695 | Robert Byerley (to May 1714) | 27 Mar 1660 | 3 May 1714 | 54 | |
| 15 Mar 1714 | Francis Fawkes (to 1715) | 18 Jun 1674 | 11 Nov 1747 | 73 | |
| 17 May 1714 | Henry Slingsby,later [1726] 5th baronet | c 1693 | 18 Jan 1763 | ||
| 4 Feb 1715 | Henry Coote,5th Earl of Mountrath [I] | 4 Jan 1684 | 27 Mar 1720 | 36 | |
| Robert Hitch (to 1722) | c 1670 | 6 Nov 1723 | |||
| 16 Apr 1720 | Richard Arundell (to 1758) | c 1696 | 20 Jan 1758 | ||
| 26 Mar 1722 | Henry Slingsby,later [1726] 5th baronet (to 1763) | c 1693 | 18 Jan 1763 | ||
| 14 Feb 1758 | Robert Boyle-Walsingham | Mar 1736 | Oct 1780 | 44 | |
| 30 Mar 1761 | Lord John Cavendish (to 1768) | 22 Oct 1732 | 18 Nov 1796 | 64 | |
| 3 Feb 1763 | Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy,5th baronet | c 1720 | 7 Apr 1775 | ||
| (to 1775) | |||||
| 18 Mar 1768 | Robert Boyle-Walsingham (to 1781) | Mar 1736 | Oct 1780 | 44 | |
| 19 Apr 1775 | Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish,later | ||||
| [1831] 1st Earl of Burlington | 21 Mar 1754 | 4 May 1834 | 80 | ||
| 11 Sep 1780 | Frederick Ponsonby,styled Viscount Duncannon, | ||||
| later [1793] 3rd Earl of Bessborough (to 1793) | 24 Jan 1758 | 3 Feb 1844 | 86 | ||
| 3 Jul 1781 | James Hare (to 1804) | 9 Apr 1747 | 17 Mar 1804 | 56 | |
| 30 Mar 1793 | Lord John Townshend (to 1818) | 19 Jan 1757 | 25 Feb 1833 | 76 | |
| 9 Apr 1804 | William Cavendish | 10 Jan 1783 | 14 Jan 1812 | 29 | |
| For information on the death of this MP,see | |||||
| the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 25 Mar 1805 | John William Ponsonby,styled Viscount | ||||
| Duncannon,later [1844] 4th Earl of Bessborough | 31 Aug 1781 | 16 May 1847 | 65 | ||
| 4 Nov 1806 | Charles Augustus Bennet,styled Baron | ||||
| Ossulston,later [1822] 5th Earl of Tankerville | 28 Apr 1776 | 25 Jun 1859 | 83 | ||
| 19 Jun 1818 | George Tierney | 20 Mar 1761 | 25 Jan 1830 | 68 | |
| Sir James Mackintosh (to Jun 1832) | 24 Oct 1765 | 30 May 1832 | 66 | ||
| 16 Feb 1830 | Henry Peter Brougham,later [Nov 1830] 1st | ||||
| Baron Baron Brougham & Vaux | 19 Sep 1778 | 7 May 1868 | 89 | ||
| 2 Dec 1830 | Henry Manners Cavendish,3rd Baron | ||||
| Waterpark [I] (to Dec 1832) | 8 Nov 1793 | 31 Mar 1863 | 69 | ||
| 28 Jun 1832 | William Francis Spencer Ponsonby,later [1838] | ||||
| 1st Baron de Mauley | 31 Jul 1787 | 16 May 1855 | 67 | ||
| 13 Dec 1832 | John Richards (to 1837) | ||||
| Benjamin Rotch | 31 Oct 1854 | ||||
| 8 Jan 1835 | Andrew Lawson | 28 Feb 1853 | |||
| 24 Jul 1837 | Henry Rich,later [1863] 1st baronet | 1797 | 5 Nov 1869 | 72 | |
| Charles Langdale | 19 Sep 1787 | 1 Dec 1868 | 81 | ||
| 29 Jun 1841 | Andrew Lawson | 28 Feb 1853 | |||
| William Ferrand | 26 Apr 1809 | 31 Mar 1889 | 79 | ||
| 29 Aug 1847 | William Saunders Sebright Lascelles | 29 Oct 1798 | 2 Jul 1851 | 52 | |
| Joshua Proctor Brown Westhead | 1807 | 25 Jul 1877 | 70 | ||
| (to 1852) | |||||
| 12 Jul 1851 | Thomas Collins | 1825 | 26 Nov 1884 | 59 | |
| 8 Jul 1852 | Basil Thomas Woodd (to 1868) | 7 Jul 1815 | 4 Jun 1895 | 79 | |
| John Dent Dent | 11 Jun 1826 | 22 Dec 1894 | 68 | ||
| Joshua Proctor Brown Westhead | 1807 | 25 Jul 1877 | 70 | ||
| Treble return,Woodd,Dent and Westhead | |||||
| receiving an equal number of votes. On | |||||
| scrutiny,Westhead's votes were reduced by 1 | |||||
| with the result that he was declared unduly | |||||
| elected 25 Apr 1853 | |||||
| 27 Mar 1857 | Thomas Collins | 1825 | 26 Nov 1884 | 59 | |
| 13 Jul 1865 | Isaac Holden,later [1893] 1st baronet | 7 May 1807 | 13 Aug 1897 | 90 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1868 | |||||
| 17 Nov 1868 | Alfred Illingworth | 25 Sep 1827 | 2 Jan 1907 | 79 | |
| 5 Feb 1874 | Basil Thomas Woodd | 7 Jul 1815 | 4 Jun 1895 | 79 | |
| 3 Apr 1880 | Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson,2nd | ||||
| baronet,later [1905] 1st Baron Knaresborough | 30 Aug 1845 | 3 Mar 1929 | 83 | ||
| [His election was declared void 23 Jul 1880. | |||||
| Writ suspended until May 1881] | |||||
| 13 May 1881 | Thomas Collins | 1825 | 26 Nov 1884 | 59 | |
| 10 Dec 1884 | Robert Gunter,later [1901] 1st baronet | 2 Nov 1831 | 17 Sep 1905 | 73 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
| KNOWSLEY (MERSEYSIDE) | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | George Edward Howarth | 29 Jun 1949 | |||
| KNOWSLEY NORTH (MERSEYSIDE) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk | 19 May 1942 | |||
| 13 Nov 1986 | George Edward Howarth | 29 Jun 1949 | |||
| NAME CHANGED TO "KNOWSLEY NORTH & | |||||
| SEFTON EAST" 1997 | |||||
| KNOWSLEY NORTH & SEFTON EAST | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | George Edward Howarth | 29 Jun 1949 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010 | |||||
| KNOWSLEY SOUTH (MERSEYSIDE) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Sean Francis Hughes | 8 May 1946 | 25 Jun 1990 | 44 | |
| 27 Sep 1990 | Edward O'Hara | 1 Oct 1937 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010 | |||||
| KNUTSFORD (CHESHIRE) | |||||
| 4 Dec 1885 | Alan de Tatton Egerton,later [1909] 3rd | ||||
| Baron Egerton of Tatton | 19 Mar 1845 | 9 Sep 1920 | 75 | ||
| Jan 1906 | Alfred John King | 14 Feb 1859 | 16 Mar 1910 | 51 | |
| 21 Jan 1910 | Alan John Sykes,later [1917] 1st baronet | 11 Apr 1868 | 21 May 1950 | 82 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Ernest Makins [kt 1938] | 14 Oct 1869 | 18 May 1959 | 89 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport | 15 Sep 1903 | 26 Dec 1989 | 86 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 18 Jun 1970 | John Emerson Harding Davies | 8 Jan 1916 | 4 Jul 1979 | 63 | |
| 1 Mar 1979 | John Bruce-Gardyne,later [1983] Baron | ||||
| Bruce-Gardyne [L] | 12 Apr 1930 | 15 Apr 1990 | 60 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP for King's Lynn 1892-1906 | |||||
| The following is extracted from "The Emperor of the United States of America and Other | |||||
| Magnificent British Eccentrics" by Catherine Caufield (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981) | |||||
| When, in 1887, Thomas Gibson Bowles, the founder and publisher of The Lady and Vanity | |||||
| Fair, was left a widower with four children under the age of ten, he decided upon a severely | |||||
| practical approach to the new task of childrearing. Health, he decided, was the most | |||||
| important thing. Bowles had studied some statistics that suggested that Jewish children | |||||
| were less susceptible to epidemic diseases than others. From then on his children were fed | |||||
| according to strict Mosaic law. | |||||
| The dressing of girl children seemed to him an unnecessarily complicated matter, so he | |||||
| decided to have his daughters outfitted by the naval tailor who made his sons' clothes. As | |||||
| a result Sydney and Dorothy Bowles wore thick blue serge naval uniforms and sailor's caps | |||||
| until the age of seventeen. | |||||
| In her teens, Sydney, later Lady Redesdale and mother of the remarkable Mitford girls, had | |||||
| to endure a great deal of teasing from small boys who made fun of her odd clothes. At last | |||||
| her father was persuaded to allow her to dress in a manner more becoming a young woman. | |||||
| He consulted a friend, an actress who affected very dramatic costumes. With her help, a | |||||
| long low-necked black velvet gown with a red sash and a large befeathered Duchess of | |||||
| Devonshire hat was selected as the 17-year-old Sydney's morning walking costume. | |||||
| Cap'en Tommy, as the cartoonists called him, had strict views on the correct way to take a | |||||
| bath. He dismissed the conventional method as merely 'sitting in dirty water'. Instead, he | |||||
| took steam baths at his London club. When the family went to Scotland on holiday, | |||||
| however, he had to improvise, using some dog kennels in front of the house as a temporary | |||||
| Turkish bath. Bowles would sit steaming inside the first kennel, which had been lined with | |||||
| hot bricks, before emerging into the run where the butler was waiting on the roof of the | |||||
| next kennel to shower him with bucketfuls of cold water. From his position on the roof, the | |||||
| butler could also announce the approach of any strangers whose sensibility might not be | |||||
| equal to the spectacle. | |||||
| Bowles was MP for King's Lynn from 1892-1906 [and again between January and | |||||
| December 1910]. In 1899, he announced to his daughter, Dorothy, who was by now keeping | |||||
| house for him at their home in Lowndes Square, that he was fed up with politics and | |||||
| intended to move to China. Asked when he was thing of taking this dramatic step, he replied | |||||
| "On Thursday. You'd better close up the house and pack." Dorothy did as she was told; | |||||
| said goodbye to her house-guests, had the furniture covered in dust sheets, arranged for a | |||||
| caretaker to look after the house, and at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning was sitting in | |||||
| Lowndes Square in a four-wheeled carriage, with all her luggage, waiting for her father | |||||
| to join her on the first leg of their journey. As Bowles came down the front steps a few | |||||
| raindrops fell; he leant in at the window of the cab and said "My dear child, it's raining. We | |||||
| won't go." | |||||
| Basil Arthur John Peto, MP for King's Norton 1941-1945 | |||||
| From the 'Manchester Guardian' of 4 February 1954:- | |||||
| 'Major John Peto, former M.P. for the King's Norton division of Birmingham, was found shot | |||||
| dead yesterday at his home at Old Enton, Witley, Surrey. Godalming police said that the | |||||
| shooting appeared to be accidental. | |||||
| 'After breakfast yesterday, Major Peto took a shotgun and went out into the grounds close | |||||
| to open country and the Enton golf course, saying that he would be in to lunch. Later his | |||||
| gardener, Mr. A. Fry, found the body near the house, with the gun lying close beside it. It | |||||
| was thought that Major Peto slipped on ice, catching his foot in some wire frozen hard to the | |||||
| ground. The police said that he had fired one barrel shortly before he fell and was carrying | |||||
| the gun loaded in the other barrel.' | |||||
| Albert Raymond Blackburn, MP for King's Norton 1945-1950 and Northfield, | |||||
| Birmingham 1950-1951 | |||||
| After a promising start, Blackburn's career spiralled rapidly downwards. The one-time Labour | |||||
| MP, whose maiden speech had been praised by Churchill, ended up as a public nuisance, | |||||
| scuffling in county courts and joining Lord Longford on anti-pornography campaigns. Had he | |||||
| been less independent - his speeches as a rule gave greater comfort to the opposition's | |||||
| front bench that to his own - and less drunk, he might have been more successful. | |||||
| In 1947, two years after entering Parliament, he was charged with being incapable in | |||||
| Piccadilly, the first of many such incidents. By 1952, Blackburn was on a steep downward | |||||
| path, albeit one he negotiated with a bankrupt's customary panache. After lunch at his own | |||||
| bankruptcy proceedings, he was told by the registrar that he had been seen at an | |||||
| expensive restaurant smoking a large cigar. In 1956, he was charged with fraudulently | |||||
| inviting the public to lease plots on a caravan site. In spite of a seven-hour speech in his | |||||
| own defence, he was sentenced to two years in prison. On appeal, he rebuked Lord Chief | |||||
| Justice Goddard for a 'very wrong remark', adding that his lordship was clearly prejudiced, | |||||
| and had already decided to send him back to prison. Goddard angrily denied this accusation, | |||||
| and then he sent him back to prison. | |||||
| After two failed marriages, his third attempt at matrimony brought him the stability that he | |||||
| needed. In the late 1960s he re-emerged as a moral vigilante. Although his campaign against | |||||
| gaming clubs was not a success, in 1975 he persuaded an Old Bailey jury that the film More | |||||
| About the Language of Love was grossly indecent. The following year, he prosecuted the | |||||
| film's predecessor The Language of Love but on this occasion failed. He had some harsh | |||||
| words for Judge Neil McKinnon, whose daughter, Gail, was a popular topless model. | |||||
| Charles Henry Sitch, MP for Kingswinford 1918-1931 | |||||
| Sitch was imprisoned for 9 months' in June 1933 after he was found guilty of fraudulent | |||||
| conversion and falsification of accounts. The edited report below appeared in 'The Times' | |||||
| of 24 March 1933:- | |||||
| 'Charles H. Sitch, a former Labour M.P. for the Kingswinford Division and general secretary of | |||||
| the Chain Makers' and Strikers' Association, appeared at the Old Hill (Staffs) Police Court | |||||
| yesterday. | |||||
| 'There were 44 charges against him, comprising 10 charges of fraudulent conversion of money | |||||
| of the society, involving a total sum of £4,769, 26 charges of falsification of the accounts of | |||||
| the society, and other charges of forging and uttering forged bank pass-books. | |||||
| 'Mr. Wylie [prosecuting] said that Mr. Sitch succeeded his father as paid secretary of the | |||||
| society in 1923. He had the assistance of two paid girl clerks, one being his sister, and they | |||||
| made probably most of the entries in the society's books. When he became secretary Mr. | |||||
| Sitch was an M.P., and he also became a magistrate. The members of the society, who had | |||||
| the greatest respect for his father, who founded the society, respected and honoured his son, | |||||
| the defendant, and had the greatest confidence in him. Under the rules of the society all | |||||
| moneys should be paid into the hands of the treasurer, but actually no money ever came into | |||||
| the hands of the treasurer at all. | |||||
| 'Until 1928 everything was in proper order, and the balances at the various banks used by the | |||||
| Association were correct. In that year the Association ceased to pay unemployment benefit, | |||||
| and funds began to accumulate. It was in the half-yearly audit of December, 1928, that the | |||||
| first discrepancy occurred. The accounts showed that the balance of the various bank | |||||
| accounts was £2,072. The actual cash in the banks was only £1,722, and the prosecution | |||||
| alleged that Sitch had converted to his own use in the six months £250 (£350?). They | |||||
| suggested that in the next six months he converted £350; in the subsequent six months | |||||
| £685; and between December, 1928 and December, 1932, they alleged that he had | |||||
| misappropriated funds of the Association to the extent of over £4,000. | |||||
| 'That was a terrible calamity for those people. They put their faith in Sitch, and so great was | |||||
| their trust that at the half-yearly audit when he met the auditors and trustees, instead of | |||||
| Sitch handing over the bank pass-books to the auditors so that they could see for themselves, | |||||
| defendant would say, "I have another appointment. I am in a hurry. I have the bank-book | |||||
| here. You had better take the amounts down in pencil." They retained the figures and | |||||
| presented them to the general meeting. | |||||
| 'Suspicion was aroused about the time of the last annual general meeting in February of this | |||||
| year and the trustees went to the bank. They found that instead of having there some | |||||
| £4,800 on deposit their total balance was £7 1s. 9d.' | |||||
| William Cavendish, MP for Knaresborough Apr-Jul 1804, Aylesbury Jul 1804-1806 and | |||||
| Derby 1806-1812 | |||||
| Cavendish's death notice in 'The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser' on 18 January | |||||
| 1812 reads as follows:- | |||||
| 'On Wednesday last, William Cavendish, Esq., M.P. for the town of Derby, and eldest son | |||||
| of Lord G[eorge Augustus] H[enry] Cavendish, of Holker-Hall, near Cartmel in this county. | |||||
| He had been spending the holidays with his noble and worthy parents at the above place; | |||||
| and on the above morning was taking a short excursion from the hall, with his younger | |||||
| brother and another gentleman, in a shandray, or light cart, when the reins breaking, the | |||||
| horse took fright, Mr. C. leapt out, and by some means falling upon his head, he was | |||||
| unfortunately killed upon the spot. He has left a widow (now at Holker) and three | |||||
| children to lament his loss.' | |||||
| Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport, MP for Knutsford 1945-1970 | |||||
| Bromley-Davenport was one of the last 'knights of the shire' at Westminster, in the sense | |||||
| that he was an MP whose distinguishing feature was a county background and an innate | |||||
| sense of conservatism. Sir Walter (he was knighted in 1961) was a parliamentary character | |||||
| of the sort the British are reputed to admire. As such, he was happy throughout his years | |||||
| on the backbenches to support this perception by playing the buffoon. | |||||
| Sir Walter was reputed to have the loudest voice (and yawn) in the House of Commons. He | |||||
| liked to startle new Labour MPs when they rose to make a speech by bellowing "Take your | |||||
| hands out of your pockets!" On one occasion, Brigadier Otho Prior-Palmer, MP for Worthing | |||||
| 1945-1964, attempted to speak at the same time as Bromley-Davenport. "Sit down!" | |||||
| thundered Sir Walter, which the Brigadier immediately did. This then led to a debate as | |||||
| whether a Brigadier should obey an order by a officer with less seniority (Bromley-Davenport | |||||
| was merely a Lieutenant Colonel), but the Speaker ruled that, in the House, all men were | |||||
| considered equal. | |||||
| He made good use of his booming voice outside the Commons as well. Boarding an over- | |||||
| crowded train at Crewe, he walked up and down the corridor, shouting "All change! All | |||||
| change!". This had the desired effect, since everyone got off and he was able to find a | |||||
| seat. When he was attacked in his home by a madman with an axe, he shouted "Don't let | |||||
| the NHS (National Health Service) get me!" so loudly that his attacker fled. | |||||
| During the 1987 general election, Sir Walter was invited by Neil Hamilton (MP for Tatton | |||||
| 1983-1997) to address a meeting. When Hamilton's attention was drawn to a pile of dog- | |||||
| eared notes, he asked Sir Walter when the speech had been written. Sir Walter replied | |||||
| that he had written it in 1945. He had delivered the same speech at every general election | |||||
| for 42 years and no-one had ever noticed. | |||||
| Sir Walter never reached high office, his high-point being as a junior whip in 1949. He lost | |||||
| this position as a result of celebrated error on his part. During 1950-1951, the Labour | |||||
| government had only a very small majority. As a result, there was a good chance the | |||||
| government could be defeated. The Tories commenced a war of attrition, which included | |||||
| a number of all-night sittings. As a whip, it was Sir Walter's job to prevent Tory MPs from | |||||
| sneaking off home early. One night he was stationed at a door to a staircase leading down | |||||
| to the Members' Entrance when he spotted a man rushing across the lobby. He shouted at | |||||
| him to go back into the House but this had no effect. He then tried to intercept the man | |||||
| as he reached the door but was brushed aside. This rather annoyed Sir Walter, who | |||||
| delivered a well-aimed kick at the fugitive's backside, causing him to tumble head over | |||||
| heels down the stairs, landing in a bruised heap at the bottom. Unfortunately for Sir | |||||
| Walter's career ambitions, the groaning victim was not a Tory MP at all, but the Belgian | |||||
| Ambassador. The ensuing diplomatic incident ensured Sir Walter's swift return to the | |||||
| backbenches. | |||||
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